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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163273503321

Autore

Kaplan Robert D

Titolo

Earning the rockies : How geography shapes america's role in the world. / / Robert D Kaplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Prince Frederick, : HighBridge Audio, 2017

ISBN

1-68168-408-X

Edizione

[Unabridged.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (6 audio files) : digital

Classificazione

HIS036000POL062000TRV025000

Disciplina

306.0973

Soggetti

Nonfiction

History

Politics

Travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Audiolibro

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Unabridged.

Sommario/riassunto

As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light-not just a story of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain-to understand how settling the West shaped our national character, and how it should shape our foreign policy. In his clear-eyed and moving meditations on the American landscape, Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness-the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once-and how we must reexamine those roots, and understand our geography, in order to confront the challenging, anarchic world that Kaplan describes. Earning the Rockies is a short epic, a story both personal and global in scope.